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Two River Theater Debut! Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure (The Public), Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout Theatre), Brothers from the Bottom (The Billie Holiday Theatre, with Wendell Pierce) Playing with Fire (Negro Ensemble Company/Strindberg Rep). Off-West End (London): Half Me, Half You. Regional (select): Huntington Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alliance Theatre, True Colors Theatre Company, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. She was also recently seen last summer in Moliere in the Park’s hit virtual production of Tartuffe (with Raul Esparza & Samira Wiley) in the role of Elmire. Film: First Match, Here After, Grace’s Keeper, Rosy, ATL. TV: Station 19 (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), Royal Pains (USA), Younger (TV Land). She also just completed filming as a Series Regular on the Freeform pilot Everything’s Trash, starring Phoebe Robinson. Awards: AUDELCO - Best Supporting Actress for Brothers from the Bottom, IRNE - Best Supporting Actress for Skeleton Crew (Huntington Theatre Company), Princess Grace Award – Theatre Award. Education: Proud alumna of Spelman College (BA), University of MissouriKansas City (MFA). IG, Twitter & FB: @toccarracash.

BARLOW) was born in Jonesville, S.C.; his parents’ divorce brought him to Houston, T.X., where he currently resides. He began his theatre journey with J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. DeHart joined Houston’s Ensemble Theatre in 1981 and has been a mainstay at that theater for 38 years, garnering several Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards. DeHart has completed eight of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle (having to regretfully forego his role in Gem of the Ocean to appear in a film). DeHart’s film credits include Jason’s Lyric, I Come in Peace, and Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. He recently completed work on films Bayou Caviar with Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tales From the Hood 2, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Tropical Cop Tales, and Hap & Leonard. DeHart is the primary re-enactment performer at The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum in Houston, T.X. where he has performed The Life of A Buffalo Soldier since 2001. He is a proud father of My Love T-ATA, a three-time grandfather, and a six-time great-grandfather. About his upcoming role as Elder Joseph Barlow, DeHart said, “I was so excited when Mr. Dirden reached out to me. I wanted to dig up my script and start right away. I am truly grateful and appreciative to Two River Theater for giving me this ‘bucket list’ opportunity.”

Broadway: 1984, The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout Theatre Company), Off-Broadway: The Emperor Jones (Irish Repertory Theatre), The Tempest (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout Theatre Company), The King’s Whore (Walkerspace), In Fields Where They Lay (Hudson Guild Theatre), Marat/ Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional: Mlima’s Tale (Westport Country Playhouse), Sunset Baby (Kitchen Theatre Company). Film: Fan Girl, Unknown Soldier. Television: Mindhunter. Education: New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and Fordham University’s Theatre Program.

JOHNSON) Nathan is a proud native of Pittsburgh where began his acting career with Kuntu Repertory Theater. He received a BA in Africana Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MFA in Acting from Penn State University. His one-man play, Growing Pains, has been produced at The August Wilson Center for African American Culture, The United Solo Theater

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Festival (Theatre Row NYC), and various theaters and festivals around the United States. Nathan is one of seven playwrights of The New Black Fest’s HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments (Seven ten-minute plays following the shooting of Mike Brown). Hands Up was featured in American Theatre Magazine, and Nathan’s play, Superiority Fantasy, was chosen as BBC radio’s Play of the Week. In the spring of 2014, he won 1st place at Amateur Night at the Apollo with an original poem. Film/TV credits: Standing Up, Falling Down (Tilted Windmill Productions), Madam Secretary (CBS), Shades of Blue (NBC), Quantico (ABC), The Wire (HBO), Deception (ABC), Blindspot (NBC), Vinyl (HBO), Person of Interest (CBS), The Interestings (Amazon), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Path (Hulu), Pain Within (Sundance Film Festival), Service to Man (STARZ). Off-Broadway: Travisville (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Playing with Fire (Gene Frankel Theatre), Black Angels Over Tuskegee (St. Luke’s Theatre). NYC: Maid’s Door (Billy Holiday Theatre), Armed (The Amoralists Theater), Growing Pains (Billy Holiday Theatre). Regional: Radio Golf (Two River Theater), Feeding Beatrice (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Julius Caesar (Pennsylvania Centre Stage), Work Song (Pittsburgh City Theatre). www.officialnathanjames.com

his) (ROOSEVELT HICKS) is thrilled to be returning to Two River Theater. The Indianapolis native is an NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program Alum and can be seen on shows such as Orange Is the New Black and CSI: NY. Robbie is grateful to be working with the talented cast and crew of Radio Golf.

AUGUST WILSON (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African-Americans, decade-by-decade, over the course of the twentieth century. His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the country and all over the world, as well as on Broadway. In 2003, Mr. Wilson made his professional stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. Mr. Wilson’s works garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987); and for The Piano Lesson (1990); a Tony Award for Fences; Great Britain’s Olivier Award for Jitney; as well as eight New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Jitney, and Radio Golf. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985 Grammy Award, and Mr. Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Mr. Wilson’s early works included the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Mr. Wilson received many fellowships and awards, including Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwrighting, the Whiting Writers Award, 2003 Heinz Award, was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal by the President of the United States, and received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and on October 16, 2005, Broadway renamed the theater located at 245 West 52nd Street - The August Wilson Theatre. Additionally, Mr. Wilson was posthumously inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Mr. Wilson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived in Seattle, Washington at the time of his death. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero.

BRANDON J. DIRDEN (Director) made his directing debut at Two River Theater with August Wilson’s Seven Guitars and most recently directed King Hedley II here. He has appeared at Two River in A Raisin in the Sun; August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Jitney; the world premiere of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine; and Topdog/Underdog, in which he starred opposite his brother Jason Dirden under the direction of the play’s author, Suzan-Lori Parks. An award-winning actor/director, he is perhaps best known for portraying Agent Dennis Aderholt in the acclaimed FX series The Americans. A Morehouse College and University of Illinois graduate, he is also known for appearing on Broadway as Martin Luther King Jr. in the successful Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way opposite Bryan Cranston’s Lyndon B. Johnson. Other Broadway credits include August Wilson’s Jitney (2017 Tony Award for Best Revival), Prelude to a Kiss, Enron and Clybourne Park. In 2012 he was awarded an Obie and a Theatre World Award and was nominated for Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards for his portrayal of Boy Willie in the Signature Theatre Company revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. Look for his Broadway return

this fall in the highly-anticipated Broadway premiere of Dominique Morriseau’s Skeleton Crew. Brandon is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers, and he is a frequent volunteer at The 52ndStreet Project (52project. org). Brandon is married to actress Crystal Dickinson and currently lives in West Orange, NJ with their son, Chase.

EDWARD E. HAYNES JR. (Scenic Designer) is excited to be designing his first show for Two River Theater. Regional credits include: Mark Taper Forum, Ebony Repertory Theatre, South Coast Rep, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, East West Players, Pasadena Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, Marin Theatre Co., TheatreWorks, Muny Opera, Intiman Theatre, Trinity Rep, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, and many he can no longer remember. Television credits include: MTV’s Spring Break 2012 & 2011, Hip Hop Harry, The Tony Rock Project, and Culture Clash. Ed is the father of twins, Denis and Wesly, and husband to director Elizabeth Bell-Haynes.

KAREN PERRY (Costume Designer) previously designed August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Jitney, Two Trains Running and Seven Guitars at Two River, as well as Love in Hate Nation, Oo-BlaDee, Lives of Reason, Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, Third and Trouble in Mind. Her most recent credits include Lackawanna Blues on Broadway, My Lord, What a Night (Ford’s Theatre), The Garden (La Jolla Playhouse), runboyrun & In Old Age (New York Theatre Workshop), Mothers (Playwrights Realm), Jazz (MTC), Lackawanna Blues with Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Mark Taper Forum), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Steel Magnolias, Hair, Dreamgirls (DTC), Oklahoma! (Houston Ballet at TUTS) and Cinderella Ballet (Eglevsky Ballet Company). Other credits include Danai Gurira’s Familiar (Woolly Mammoth, Guthrie, Seattle Rep), Cabin in the Sky (Encores!), Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky (Pasadena Playhouse), John Grisham’s A Time to Kill, dir. Ethan McSweeny (Arena), Crowns, stop.reset, Trinity River Trilogy by Regina Taylor (Goodman, STC, DTC/Arena), The Trip to Bountiful, Walter Mosley’s The Fall of Heaven, dir. Marion McClinton (Cincinnati Playhouse), The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell McCraney, dirs. Tina Landau and Robert O’Hara (The Public/McCarter), Having Our Say by Emily Mann (McCarter) and Resurrection by Daniel Beaty (Arena). She has designed every play in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle except Fences. Film/TV credits include: Gregory Hines Show, Saturday Night Live, and The Brother from Another Planet by director John Sayles. DRISCOLL OTTO (Lighting Designer) Previously designed Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine and Seven Guitars at Two River. This summer, Driscoll designed the lighting for Turandot at a quarry in Austria for Oper im Steinbruch. Recently he designed Lighting and Projections for Houston Grand Opera’s Marian’s Song, lighting for The Huntington Theatre Company’s production of The Purists directed by Billy Porter, projection design for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s The Flying Dutchman, lighting and projections for Iolanta at Chicago Opera Theatre. Mr. Otto’s design work is seen frequently in NYC, regional theatre, and opera. Other credits include The Huntington Theatre Company, Utah Opera, The Old Globe, Opera Omaha, Opera Philadelphia, Dallas Theater Center, Drury Lane Theatre, The Dallas Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Hangar Theatre, Flat Rock Playhouse, Lyric Opera Kansas City, and productions of Legally Blonde and Rock of Ages for Norwegian Cruise Lines. Highlights to his resume include projection design for Santa Fe Opera’s production of The Golden Cockerel and The Metropolitan Opera’s production of La Donna Del Lago. Upcoming projects include The Life reimagined and directed by Billy Porter for New York City Center’s Encores!, Paul Moravec, and Mark Campbell’s new oratorio Sanctuary Road. He received his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His work can be seen at www.DriscollOtto.com

KAY RICHARDSON (Sound Designer) is a two-time Suzi Bass nominated Sound Designer and Audio Engineer. Radio Golf marks Kay’s return to the Two River family. Regional Theater designs include: The Hound of the Baskervilles at Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish, MT; King Hedley II at Two River; Eclipsed at Synchronicity Theatre, Thurgood at Theatrical Outfit; Between Riverside and Crazy, Smart People, Fetch Clay Make Man and Gut Bucket Blues at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, GA. Additional design work includes: A Man of No Importance, Spring Awakening, The Colored Museum, A Song for Coretta, and Seven Guitars. Kay has toured in all 50 of the United States and in over 45 countries mixing live sound for musicals and concerts. Currently, she is the Sound Supervisor at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts in Princeton, NJ.

ERIN HICKS (Wigs Designer) grew up in Harlem, NY. She began styling hair as an assistant on The Winter’s Tale at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Alfre Woodard, Mandy Patinkin, and Diane Venora. Over the last 20 years she has worked on various Broadway, film and TV shows. This is Erin’s fifth show at Two River, following Guadalupe in the Guest Room and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King Hedley II.

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HEIDI GRIFFITHS (Casting) has worked for more than 25 years at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in NYC, where she has cast over 200 productions Off-Broadway and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, including Shakespeare, new plays, and musicals. On Broadway: The Girl From The North Country; The Inheritance; The Iceman Cometh; Sweat; Shuffle Along; The Crucible, Eclipsed; A Delicate Balance; A Raisin in the Sun; Lucky Guy; Chinglish; The Motherf**ker with the Hat; The Merchant of Venice; Hair; Passing Strange; Caroline, or Change; Take Me Out (Tony Award, Best Play 2003); Topdog/Underdog (Pulitzer Prize, 2002); The Wild Party; Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk; On the Town; and The Tempest. She also cast the films The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, MURDER and murder, Saving Face and Ladybird. Radio Golf is her 12th collaboration with Two River Theater.

KATE MURRAY (Casting) Two River Theater: Theo, King Hedley II, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Women of Padilla, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Seven Guitars, Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, and The School for Wives. Broadway (as Casting Associate): The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Delicate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun, Lucky Guy (Casting Assistant). Additional casting credits include work with Arena Stage, Center Theater Group, The Cherry Lane, Bedlam, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, LAByrinth, New Georges, TheaterWorks Hartford, and The Studio Theatre. Kate is a Casting Director at The Public Theater.

MEGAN SMITH (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be reunited with the Radio Golf Company and Two River Theater staff. Previously, Ms. Smith stage managed The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Dancing at Lughnasa at Two River Theater. In 2019, Ms. Smith helped David Greenspan remount TRT’s production of The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Miami New Drama. Select NY credits include: Off-Broadway: Usual Girls, Ordinary Days (Roundabout Theatre Company), Fetch Clay, Make Man and Red Dog Howls (New York Theatre Workshop), The Scottsboro Boys (The Vineyard Theatre), Book of Days (Signature Theatre). Regional credits include: Miami New Drama, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, New York Stage and Film, Bard SummerScape, and The Guthrie Theater.

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